Insaniyat
Volume 28, Numéro 1, Pages 119-141
2024-03-31
Ouled Saïd, A Gourara Palm Grove: Local Development And The Reproduction Of A Traditional Society
Authors : Bendjelid Abed .
Abstract
In the Gourara, palm groves survive as well as they can thanks to their peasant community resistance, to their persistence and their culture, besides solid public help. The guidelines of this text centered on the Ouled Saïd oasis, are firstly to analyze the agricultural land division and secondly to understand the geographical changes of the diverse local countryside, and thirdly to try to put the stakes into the context of a small rural traditional society which reproduces itself by using modern State institutions with an aim to manage its municipal territory ensuring local development leaning strongly on public aid and a search to improve the social conditions for the resident population. In effect a series of planning actions were undertaken as early as the beginning of the 21st century, among which must be emphasized the patrimonial material rehabilitation (foggaras, ksour, environmental protection etc.). Furthermore a social structure recombination enabled some social groups to be implicated in local politics, in order to manage municipality business. This local development certainly improved the Ouled Saïd inhabitants’ way of life, but it also raised the dual question of the oases local agriculture future and the hastened preference for a consumer mode.
Keywords
Ouled Saïd - traditional society reproduction - foggaras - consumer mode - municipal management.
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